Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

One wonders whether Senator Minchin was in the cabinet when these issues were discussed, because it is interesting to remind those opposite that in fact this was adopted as coalition policy prior to the last election. So any Liberal senator elected at the last election was elected on a platform which included this promise, drafted I understand by Mr Turnbull: a re-elected coalition government will establish the world’s most comprehensive emissions trading scheme in Australia, commencing no later than 2012. (Time expired)